Quotes by politician

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I am rather inclined to silence.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

"Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude."

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

"Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere."

I happen temporarily to occupy this big white house i am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my fathers child has.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the thing is more than half done already.

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.